New electronic resources at IUB Libraries

Access to rubbings made from stone inscriptions compiled from the work of the late historian Mao Yuanming. Also includes additional material from archeological reports up to 2015. The database is full-text searchable, but certain features (such as copying text and citation) require a username and password for access. Visit the Scholar's Commons Reference Desk at Wells Library for login information.

Access to footage, interviews, photographs and movie posters related to Hindi cinema, the industry producing Hindi/Urdu language films in Mumbai, India (formerly known as Bombay), and now popularly known as ‘Bollywood’. 

Access to documents related to the investigation and prosecution of war crimes committed by Nazi concentration camp commandants and camp personnel. 

Online full text access to Indiana newspapers, including the Indianapolis Star (1903–Present), Evansville Courier & Press,  Indianapolis News, Journal and Courier (Lafayette), Palladium-Item (Richmond), and The Star Press (Muncie).

Primary source media microfilm collection entitled Records of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees, 1938-1947.

Digital collection, consisting of 25 individual titles, documenting life in Japanese-American internment camps during WWII.

Digital access to the papers of President Franklin D. Roosevelt related to Japanese American internment, an executive order that targeted U.S. citizens and resident aliens and uprooted entire communities.

Access to documents pertaining to Jewish communities from a wide variety of sources, including the Gestapo, local police and government offices, Reich ministries, businesses, etc.

Collection consisting of original documents collected by David Erlich (pseudonym David Diamant) over a period of approximately 30 years dealing primarily with the Jewish segment of the French underground resistance.

African American weekly newspaper founded in 1919, covering civil rights issues and fighting segregation, discrimination, and other important issues of the African American community.

Earliest extant biographical dictionary on the life of the Prophet and the early generations of Muslims. The print version has been published between 1904 and 1940 by Brill, and a paperback reprint version was published in January 2022. This online version is full text searchable.

Lexikons des gesamten Buchwesens (“Dictionary of the Book”) covers the history of books, from the production and distribution to the reception, as well as those working with books professionally, such as bibliographers, librarians, booksellers and publishers. Also covered are elements of archival studies, diplomacy, cartography, literature and linguistics, the press, epistemology, data processing and media studies.

The 1990s and early 2000s were a tumultuous time in Ukraine’s history. The fall of the Soviet Union and the establishment of independent Ukraine radically altered its political system. Citizens were guaranteed free speech and property rights; however, they suffered under a prolonged economic depression. In 2000, corruption scandals and the murder of investigative journalist Georgiy Gongadze triggered nationwide protests against Ukraine’s political elites. The Local and Independent Ukrainian Newspapers (LIUN) collection traces the history of Ukraine during this early period of independence, and the events leading up to the Orange Revolution (2004–2005).

Nash Sovremennik (Наш современник, Our Contemporary) was an influential literary periodical of the Soviet and post-Soviet period. Established in 1956 in Moscow on the basis of the Maxim Gorky-founded literary journal Al’manakh (Альманах, Almanac; pub. 1933-1955, suspended 1940-1947), it was published under the auspices of the RSFSR Union of Writers and was one of the most popular and respected Soviet literary periodicals. 

Full-image full-text searchable database of the four art journals published by the National Palace Museum (NPM) in Taipei. Covers nearly 700,000 artworks that cover the 5,000-year long history of China. Includes traditional Chinese and English content with English, simplified Chinese, and traditional Chinese interfaces.

Access to two digital collections related to Holocaust Era Assets. The first includes records Regarding Bank Investigations and Records Relating to Interrogations of Nazi Financiers, from the records of the Office of the Finance Division and Finance Advisor in the Office of Military Government, U.S. Zone (Germany) (OMGUS), during the period 1945-1949. The second comprises Records Regarding Intelligence and Financial Investigations, 1945-1949, from the Records of the Financial Intelligence Group, Office of the Finance Adviser. These collections consist of memorandums, letters, cables, balance sheets, reports, exhibits, newspaper clippings, and civil censorship intercepts.

This collection reproduces the Tagebuch or journal of Dr. Hans Frank (1900-1946), the Governor-General of German-occupied Poland from October 1939 until early 1945. The journal is in typed format, in chronological order, covering all aspect of Generalgouvernment (GG) administration from its seat in the royal Wawel castle in Krakau (Kraków). The entries reflect administrative matters, rather than the spontaneous thoughts or feelings usually found in a diary.

Digital collection consisting of index cards listing the name, date and place of birth, occupation and last address of Jews whose German citizenship was revoked in accordance with the "Nuremberg Laws" of 1935, including Jews from Germany, Austria and Czech Bohemia. The cards are generally in alphabetical order. Suffix names "Israel" for men and "Sara" for women were added by law in 1936 to readily identify persons of Jewish descent.

Pre-revolutionary political, literary and cultural illustrated magazine established in 1899 and in continuous print until 1918. Ogonek started as a weekly illustrated supplement to the influential St. Petersburg-based newspaper Birzhevye Vedomosti. It later became a separate entity, attracting the period’s most notable journalists, photographers, literati and critics. It was closed by the Bolshevik revolutionaries in 1918 for propagating anti-Soviet views.

Scholarly reference resource published in partnership with the American Institute of Physics. Includes peer-reviewed summaries on a variety of topics across the subject of physics. 

Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law (OSAIL) contains over 180 full-text online editions of market-leading reference works and treatises published by Oxford University Press, including Oppenheim, and the Oxford Commentaries on International Law. All titles are fully searchable and browsable by subject matter, title and author, and are linked, via the Oxford Law Citator, to relevant case reports and articles within all of Oxford University Press's online law products. 

The Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) was established by act of Congress in 1980. Between July and December 1981, the CWRIC held 20 days of public hearings. This publication consists of the testimony and documents from more than 750 witnesses: Japanese Americans and Aleuts who had lived through the events of WWII, former government officials who ran the internment program, public figures, internees, organizations such as the Japanese American Citizens League, interested citizens, historians, and other professionals who had studied the subjects of the Commission’s inquiry. Many of the transcripts are personal stories of experiences of evacuees. Documents include publications, reports, press releases, photographs, newspaper clippings, etc. related to the hearings.

Prominent journal on Russian domestic and foreign policy issues. POLIS. Politicheskie issledovania (ПОЛИС. Политические исследования, POLICY. Political Studies) publishes academic research and essays on Russian domestic and foreign policy issues from a variety of academic perspectives and disciplines. 

Illustrates the chief genres of Russian popular literature, including chivalric tales, historical fiction and updated fairy tales, as well as stories of adventure, banditry, detectives, success, war and empire, women and gender. The collection follows the evolution of the Russian language in its popular commercial print form.

The Post-Perestroika Newspapers collection traces the evolution of post-Soviet Russia, with coverage beginning in the mid-1980s and extending well into the twenty-first century. 

SAFEHAVEN was the code name of a project of the Foreign Economic Administration, in cooperation with the State Department and the military services, to block the flow of German capital across neutral boundaries and to identify and observe all German overseas investments during the World War II era. This collections includes SAFEHAVEM project documents digitized from the US National Archives.

Access to northern California’s “newspaper of record,” also known as the "Voice of the West."  Includes reporting and commentary on news ranging from the aftermath of the Gold Rush to the effects of World War II, and the Great Depression. In the 20th century, the paper became known for colorful columnists like Herb Caen and the original “Dear Abby,” as well as its coverage of the counterculture movement, gay rights and the onset of the AIDS crisis.

Full text repository of quality South Asian books, magazines, reports, historical journals, video, audio, zines, newspapers, magazines, letters, diaries, and other primary source materials.

Since the mid-nineteenth century, the South Bend Tribune has supplied the Michiana region with perspectives on a range of people, places, and events. Includes reporting on such topics as the rise and decline of manufacturing, the Studebaker Corporation, the region’s association with the Ku Klux Klan, expansion of electric rail transportation, the industrial economy, job loss; urban renewal, and technology investment.

Traces the history of Ukraine during the events leading up to WWII. Includes newspapers from three cities: Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Lviv. Includes newspapers in both Ukrainian and Russian.

Access to historical materials on early modern English politics and culture. Includes correspondence, reports, memoranda, and parliamentary drafts from ambassadors, civil servants and provincial administrators of Tudor and Stuart Britain. Stuart and Cumberland Papers.

Chronological record of successive Japanese emperors from Emperor Jinmu to the 121st Emperor Komei, as well as the five emperors of the Northern Court, Emperor Kogon, Emperor Komyo, Emperor Suko, Emperor Gokogon, and Emperor Goenyu. Phase 2 (vol. 50-98) and Phase 3 (vol. 99-135).

Access to materials related to the history of retail, with access to company archives, trade journals and union records. Chronicles stores and shopping habits in industrialized society during a period of transformation of consumer needs, social expectations, and technological advancements.

Digital collection of rare magazines by and for servicemen and women during the First World War. The magazines written and illustrated by service personnel from a huge variety of units: the infantry, artillery, air force, naval, supply and transport units, military hospitals and training depots of all combatant nations including America, Britain, Germany, Canada, France, Australia and New Zealand. Although the majority of journals that have survived originate from units based on the Western Front in France and Belgium, there are also magazines from units serving on the Eastern Front, in Gallipoli, Palestine, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India, Britain and America.

Access to content on U.S. criminal justice policies. Covers public laws, legislative reports, executive data, press
releases, and historical news articles. Also includes primary source content related to U.S. criminal justice policy, incorporating federal government statistics and data, topic pages, timelines, and newspaper articles.

Access to collections from archives across the UK and Ireland for the study of the lives and experiences of lesser-known women in their own words. Spanning a date range of 1600-1968, the resource explores the differing conditions in which women have lived in the UK and Ireland during the last four centuries, from experiences of wartime, witch trials, suffrage and feminist movements, to the everyday lives lived between and around these historic flashpoints.

The Ukrainian-language Za Vil’nu Ukrainu (За Вільну Україну, For a Free Ukraine) was founded in July 1990 in L’viv as an outlet of the Regional Council of Workers' Deputies with the stated purpose of uniting national-patriotic forces and Ukrainian ideals.